Opinion: Why Children Are Fleeing Central America

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... I ... I ... I ... the two Concerto I'm Mary the soul ... the book ends or try the in the quarter prices on President Obama is that fair ... what's really driving the skits North ... America's columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady joins me now married ... central America Supreme dangerous places and ... in particular I would say the three countries that make up what's called the Northern triangle that would be quite minder a Sanaa Salvador ... and I in my column on Monday I talked about on any an article that I General Kelly General John Kelly who runs south calm ... Ottens wrote ... talking about really how ... the U S foreign drugs has turned that Northern triangle into a killing field and he believes that's what the children are fleeing is also written an awful lot about Honduras in U S intervention dare enter politics ... for viewers and haven't followed it what role did the Obama administration play in that country selections ... well actually there was a president who decided he wanted to see ... extend his term ... I they have a one term limit ... for the president under s because they've lived in dictatorships they don't like them ... on and this particular president wanted to extend his term by ... I changing the lot the last minute and aam the military said and that he was violating the Constitution ... and not took him out of circulation ... and audio botanist ration thought that was a bad idea ... I've crackdown on hundreds of Hundreds fought back and think surprise a lot of people the State Department who thought they could ... crush their will in a short time ... and eventually allow them to last a whole day there next free election but that the misty conomy on and it it it really destabilize the country ... and there was not helpful for under an oak Guatemala I hate you visit a lot of alot of rain on orphans there ... judging from your last trip ... how is the situation there ... changed in recent months hell violence ... while all three countries are very violent and that's with General Kelly was talking about in this essay I think Hundreds is potentially vulnerable because ... of the flights from Venice well out of land in hunters there's a lot of jungle and and not an ... and ... I inhabited areas ... up for them to traffic through Honduras and then up five Mexico into the US ... um Guatemala and is also very violent it was violent during on the thirty five years of war when the communists were trying to take over the country ... but I think that that drug gangs have really come down in there in a way that aam ... makes it almost impossible for them to maintain democratic institutions I mean they have this overwhelming amount of U S dollars that are sent by us on to consumers ... and on making by everybody that they need to buy same situation in El Salvador ... also I think is only slightly different in the sense that I'm you know the former guerrilla group BSNL and ... is now in power and El Salvador ... and there would seem to be in this is anecdotal but thought there would seem to be from plenty of reports in the press ... that be I ... Salvadoran government the SNL and ... five ... is using the iam drug gangs has a kind of proxy an enforcer basically around election time sand ... ah so that's exacerbated the problem I mean as we know communism is basically organized crime ... so the SNL and gets along very well with the gangs ... well we certainly appreciate the update we hope you'll Triassic ensued America's columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady thank you so much that when ...